This paper presents a qualitative study exploring the concept of esprit de corps in prison
officers (POs), through the interpretative lens of Social Identity Theory. The study relies on …

Research about the predictors of resilience in the inmate population needs further
explorations. This study examines the predictors of resilience in male inmates from Padua …

This book explores how Bangladeshi women from poor and undereducated/semi-educated
backgrounds who have crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border find themselves in prisons …

This book offers a sustained study of one feature of the prison officer's job: the threat and use
of force, which the author calls 'doing'coercion. Adopting an interactionist, micro-sociological …

When it comes to the field of drug studies, researchers have tended to privilege men's
perspectives and experiences, assuming women to be mostly marginal, as primarily victims …

This contribution aims to explore the tension between the juridical dimension of the prison
system and the everyday practices that take place within it. The article focus on prison …

This study examines the impact of the program Envisioning the Future (EF) by Patrizio
Paoletti Foundation on the predictors of resilience among male inmates. EF offers ten keys …

Taking the case of prison healthcare reform in Italy as an empirical basis, the article explores
the ways in which legal intervention is materialized in the social relations, cultural horizons …

This chapter argues that Convict Criminology has played a major role in posing the
necessity to rely on the “first-hand experience” of prisoners for the production of scientific …

This paper examines critical issues that arose during an innovative educational initiative
directed at inmate students, offering both a reflective analysis of prison living conditions and …